Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

RT @jasonfurman: Some policies that would be better than the UK's 50% subsidy for sit-down restaurant meals: 1. Subsidies for restaurants… — PolitiTweet.org

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Among other things, it now seems unlikely that Trump will go into November able to boast about a robust recovery, and quite likely that he'll preside over a stumbling economy and a rising death toll 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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This fits with many other straws in the wind, suggesting that recovery either slowed or actually went into reverse in the 2nd half of June, as new cases soared 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The key to understanding pandemic policy is that while the people in charge are evil, they're also very stupid https://t.co/GHAi5weiYS — PolitiTweet.org

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My favorite line from Guys and Dolls: "You have wished yourself a Scarsdale Galahad, the breakfast-eating Brooks Brothers type." Tempus fugit. https://t.co/ro0pXeU2iE — PolitiTweet.org

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But that really looks like a bet that has already failed. The problem is that even a hopeless political strategy can still kill a lot of people 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Why do this? Part of the answer is that Trump believes that admitting mistakes is weak, so he always doubles down. It's also, probably, about the desperate hope that pretending things are OK will fool people for a few months 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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You might have expected some effort to clean up — to try to hold on to some reopening while going for the mitigating measures. But no: the Trump-Fox axis is doubling down on stupid 3/ https://t.co/uVowPBwquZ — PolitiTweet.org

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What we actually got, however, was stupid reopening, which is producing exactly the viral spikes we feared 2/ https://t.co/iV26xF0hjO — PolitiTweet.org

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A month or so ago, people were telling me that the choice between reopening and not was a false one — the thing to do was "smart" reopening, which took maximal advantage of mitigating measures like masks and social distancing 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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If Biden is president it won’t happen. If Trump is still in the WH leaving the WHO will be the least of our problems — PolitiTweet.org

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Transition to things-aren't-looking-so-greatness. Those June job gains were a snapshot from almost a month ago, and aren't what's happening now https://t.co/WGSTf1fWuA https://t.co/r9Qj0YIcl5 — PolitiTweet.org

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In other words, Covid-19 was his first significant test. And he flunked it with flying colors 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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But Trump inherited a nation at peace, with a steadily growing economy. Until this March he could just sit on top of a smoothly moving train and claim that he was driving it 3/ https://t.co/N0EY8dUdKd — PolitiTweet.org

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Every other modern president faced some kind of external challenge during his first three years. Obama took office amid a financial crisis. Whatever you think of his response, GW Bush faced 9/11. Clinton faced stubbornly high unemployment, Bush the elder Saddam Hussein 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing you can sense from Republicans is an outraged sense of injustice — how dare the world throw Covid-19 at them, when things seemed to be going so well? But the real surprise is that it took this long for Trump to face a real crisis 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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But Ron DeSantis evidently feels that there aren't enough infected people in his state 2/ https://t.co/bg7vp5r9UW — PolitiTweet.org

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This is Florida, the state the right was hailing as a role model just a few weeks ago. No data on hospitalizations, because the state won't release it 1/ https://t.co/Pg82zXwC9M — PolitiTweet.org

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What strikes me, looking at America’s extraordinary pandemic failure, is how top-down it all was. https://t.co/b5PNY35Xtb — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: When did America start losing its war against the coronavirus? The turning point, @PaulKrugman writes, was April 17, when T… — PolitiTweet.org

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Yeah. Why does a German-ancestry guy from Queens care about statues of Confederate generals? It's not history, it's racism https://t.co/LjaFXQ09VB — PolitiTweet.org

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A is A. Non-contradiction https://t.co/IdzY2yjXep — PolitiTweet.org

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The 2020 campaign so far: Trump: I'm racist. Vote for me! Voters: No thanks. Also, Biden might keep us from dying. Trump: But I'm really, really racist! You have to vote for me! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @stone_lis: ICYMI: Watch this video of leading economic experts discuss the disparities by race and class that have driven so many Ameri… — PolitiTweet.org

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So I don't think Trump will manage to make this an election about statues 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Finally, I suspect that many college-educated voters are aware that the US is a failure and a pariah compared with other countries, and that they can't visit Europe. This will make the pandemic hard to forget 4/ https://t.co/hPGZg0BVUh — PolitiTweet.org

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Second, fear of the virus is having a big impact on consumer behavior. This will dampen or reverse job losses; also, if people are worried about something in their daily lives, won't it also affect their votes? 3/ https://t.co/yZBTf1v0iR — PolitiTweet.org

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Three reasons to think it isn't. One is a historical parallel: high crime rates were a feature of the US landscape from the late 60s through the 90s — although with a much lower death toll than Covid-19. Did "law and order" disappear as an issue? 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump officials "hope Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll"; that's their pandemic strategy. It's vile, but is it realistic? 1/ https://t.co/URgZTdBFTL — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JRubinBlogger: they stayed open too long, closed too briefly and ignored expert advice. People have gotten sick and died. Why havent't… — PolitiTweet.org